A Brass Lunchbox
How many different techniques were required to manufacture this brass lunchbox? This talk examines the form and function of the lunchbox, and links it to earlier examples produced during the Mamluk sultanate (1250-1517) in Egypt and Syria?
Figure 1. Brass lunchbox, purchased in Syria, c. 1998. Constructed from beaten, cast, and cut brass with additional tinning. Probably produced in the twentieth century.
- For an example of a highly decorated brass lunchbox dating to the late fifteenth century, see: Emily Shovelton, ‘Lunchbox,’ Museum with no Frontiers 2020.